Gabriela Medina

Gabriela Medina is a Venezuelan visual artist based in Paris. Her work explores change, perception and emotional experience through lenticular art, a medium that exists only through the physical movement of the viewer. Each piece shifts, vibrates and transforms, making repetition impossible. What appears to repeat is never identical.

Medina's career began in photography, a discipline she practiced for over three decades, documenting decisive historical moments including the Tiananmen Square events in 1989. Her images were published in The New York Times, El Nacional and Life Magazine, which featured them in its "The Best of the Year 1989" edition. Part of that archive is collected in the book Children of the Dragon (Contact Press).

Over time, her practice evolved toward languages that integrate digital tools and experimental processes, expanding the boundaries of traditional photography. Although her work is in dialogue with the legacy of Venezuelan optical and kinetic art, her approach is defined by an intuitive and personal interpretation, closer to exploration than to formalism.

She is currently developing Repetir Diferente, a body of lenticular work in which visual construction and the internal logic of the image have becom...

Photography studies, Caracas, Venezuela · 1983–1988

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2026 Todos somos extranjeros — Artist Book, Palazzo Pisani Revedin, Venice, Italy (November) Todos somos extranjeros ,Artist Book, Estudio Dagoberto Rodríguez, Madrid, Spain (April) Todos somos extranjeros, Artist Book, Espacio Curatorial Un Lugar, Carabanchel, Madrid, Spain El Kiosko, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, USA

2025 El Kiosko , NADA, Miami, USA Salitre, La Guillotina, Montreuil, France (Solo exhibition)

2024 Rencontres Inattendues, Galerie El Habibi, Le Marais, Paris, France Contrapunto Iridiscente, Espace Ornella de Simone, Madrid, Spain

2017 The Awajum , Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden, Netherlands (Curated by Fransje Brinkgreve and Vanessa de Gruijter) The Awajum, Afrika Museum, Berg en Dal, Netherlands Mulheres de Aqui, Magenta Associação de Artistas, Figueira da Foz, Portugal (Solo exhibition)

2016 Rostos de Sal, Musée Municipal Santos Rocha, Figueira da Foz, Portugal (Solo exhibition) ArtShopping,Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France

2015 Rencontres Photo du 10e, Mairie du 10e Arrondissement, Paris, France Rostos de Sal — Magenta Associação de Artistas, Figueira da Foz, Portugal (Solo exhibition)

2011 Lens Culture Fotofest, Pa...